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The Best Day
05:05
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I'm calling from a broken phone booth.
I'm calling from a million miles away.
I'm calling with a harmless half-truth
That everything is gonna be okay.
The world is waking up.
The walls are coming down.
Today will be the best day of your life.
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One Cup of Coffee
06:24
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Got the days mixed up again.
Thought it was Friday for an hour or so.
Closed my eyes to clear my head.
One cup of coffee and I’m good to go.
Faces all being to blend
Like episodes from my favorite show.
Even so, I’ll just pretend:
One cup of coffee and I’m good to go.
Happens every now and then,
But I still keep all of my ducks in a row
Got some ink left in my pen.
One cup of coffee and I’m good to go.
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Rental Home
05:42
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I am the rental home.
I’ve seen you come and go.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
I’ve seen the real you
Hiding the black and blue.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
I'll give you a place to hide
When you feel broke inside.
Magic and make-believe
Until it's time to leave.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
Your fingerprints are all over me.
I'll give you a place to hide
When you feel broke inside.
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Sell Me the Snake
04:30
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Cover up my left eye and the world turns gray and miserable.
Cover up the right eye and it doesn’t look so bad.
Cover up my third eye, and I start to feel invisible.
Try to cover all my eyes, but I run out of hands.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
I’ve had as much as
I can take.
If I get poisoned, well,
That’s my mistake.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
Looking for perspective, like the world looks to an astronaut
Looking for a method in the madness of it all.
Looking on the bright side like I’m trying to read a microdot
Hidden in a message scribbled on a bathroom wall.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
I’ve had as much as
I can take.
If I get poisoned, well,
That’s my mistake.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
Gotta keep it real, and I gotta keep it rational.
Gotta keep my faith that there’s an ultimate design.
Gotta tell myself that we’re more than lonely animals
Trying to convince ourselves we’re partially divine.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
I’ve had as much as
I can take.
If I get poisoned, well,
That’s my mistake.
Sell me the snake oil.
Sell me the snake.
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5. |
Paul Giamatti
03:34
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Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
I see his angry eyebrows in the
Rearview of the car
That drives me to the restaurant
Where he’s tending bar.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
He’s nodding in a doorway with
Whiskey on his breath.
I’m half tempted to join him.
Abigail, I am vexed.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Mannequins in shop windows
Are all wearing his head.
When I find my way back home,
Will he be in my bed?
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
Paul Giamatti is everywhere tonight.
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
Paul Giamatti is everywhere
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6. |
Hell in Hello
05:19
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They say what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger
Unless what doesn’t kill you makes you suffer longer.
That’s where my head is lately, where I’m at,
I’ll pour a drink and try to forget,
But then I see you coming and remember why
There’s hell in hello and good in goodbye.
A bitter pill and a thorn in my side,
The hell in hello and good in goodbye.
I know I tend to be a stick in the mud,
And moody minor chords run thick in my blood,
Which, I suppose, was at the root of it all:
Always waiting for the hammer to fall.
And now I see you coming and remember why
There’s hell in hello and good in goodbye.
A bitter pill and a thorn in my side,
The hell in hello and good in goodbye.
I’m of two minds, but they both agree:
You’re the best thing that could happen to me.
And though I know that I need to move on,
I can’t help thinking that you were the one
And then I see you coming and remember why
There’s hell in hello and good in goodbye.
A bitter pill and a thorn in my side,
The hell in hello and good in goodbye.
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We’re being watched. I get the sense
It’s bigger than the government,
Arguably sentient,
With any luck benevolent.
May the algorithm smile upon you.
A system with a sticky beak,
A million eyeballs, so to speak,
Sucking up your every leak,
And syphoning off your mystique.
May the algorithm smile upon you.
And so you say a little prayer
By filling out a questionnaire,
Fingers crossed the system’s fair
In case the thing turns self-aware.
May the algorithm smile upon you.
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Blue Light
04:18
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Feel like I’ve been up all night,
Gramophone brain wound too tight
With the name of a song on the tip of my tongue,
Like a riff on repeat when the chorus won’t come
Corkscrew down a rabbit hole,
Spun out and I’ve lost control,
One more link in an endless chain
With a click, click, click, ringing out in my brain.
As the blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on my bloodshot eyes.
The blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on me.
The blue light shines and I’m hypnotized.
The blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on me.
Sunrise and I’ve lost the thread
And I’ve got another long Monday ahead
Tired and shaky and running on E
And the name of that tune won’t let me be.
As the blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on my bloodshot eyes.
The blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on me.
The blue light shines and I’m hypnotized.
The blue light shines, the blue light shines,
The blue light shines on me.
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Marc Schuster Havertown, Pennsylvania
Marc's first concert was the Monkees in 1987.
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